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TIL James Garfield could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other, at the same time.

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VMxdm TIL that the Elan "therapeutic" school, infamous for torturing its students who weren't allowed to contact the outside world, had a form of punishment where well behaved students would beat up poorly behaved ones. One student punished in this way was killed. The school covered it up for years.
GYn04 TIL In 1980 Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser was awoken to a report of 2,200 incoming Soviet missiles... it was a false alarm due to the malfunction of a 46 cent chip.
b9Zr0 TIL, There was not one single bank robbery in Americas first 80 years of existing, so they virtually had no security. Then an explosion of robberies.
NxWJ TIL: The biggest cities, like NYC (212), Chicago(312), and Los Angeles (213), were assigned the shortest area codes so they could be dialed fastest on rotary phones; that’s why Anchorage (907) got the short end of the stick.
jNmrM TIL an American Heart Association study found that not only did fish oil medication not reduce the risk of cardiac events, but also increased the risk of atrial fibrillation